MOTION
ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Brent
Trades Council notes:
1.Ongoing
extreme weather events across the globe which have been exacerbated by climate
breakdown: heat waves, wildfires, floods and hurricanes.
2. The 2018 IPCC report which warned of the dire consequences of exceeding 1.5C
global average warming and that a societal transformation would be needed to
avoid this, halving global carbon emissions by 2030; that despite this, global
emissions have continued to rise.
3. That the climate crisis is a social justice issue, with those who have done
least to cause the crisis facing the worst impacts.
4. That wealthy, industrialised countries have a responsibility to take on
their fair share of emissions reductions; that the UK's target of net zero by
2050 is insufficient, and that the UK government is failing to implement
policies to meet even this target.
5. That we also face a global and UK crisis of unemployment; that the global
response to the Covid-19 pandemic represents an opportunity to invest in
climate jobs, a just transformation and a fairer society; and that this
opportunity has not been taken.
6. That the UN COP26 negotiations in Glasgow in November 2021 are crucial for
the global response to climate change.
7. That UK civil society needs to exert maximum pressure on the government in
the coming year for a green recovery and just transition in the UK, and to show
leadership as COP26 host; that trade unions can play a key role in the COP26
coalition in which UK civil society has been organising as part of the wider
global climate justice movement.
This
(union branch) resolves:
1. To campaign, alongside allies in civil society for massive public investment
in a green recovery that tackles the climate and ecological emergency, creates
climate jobs and is underpinned by a fair deal for workers both here and in supply
chains in the Global South.
2. To join the national mobilisations for protests during the COP26 climate
summit in Glasgow in November 2021.
3. To send a delegation to Glasgow / To donate towards the costs of trade union
transport to Glasgow / To donate towards the costs of members wishing to join
protests in Glasgow.
4. To send this motion to our regional and national organisation.
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